Ring Lord of the Red Chamber

Jia Xiaohuan lay on the window of the carriage, looking back at the Zhuangzi that was getting farther and farther away from her.

Just about an hour ago, his "mother" had been burned to ashes under the supervision of Mrs. Lai and his wife, and then she would be buried in a remote mountain.Even, as a son, he would never know where his mother would be buried.

But he and Jia Cong were placed in a simple carriage and embarked on the journey back to Rongguo Mansion.

Who knows, what will greet him in that mansion?

Wang Xifeng was in the same car with Lai and everyone. At this time, she was impatiently tightening the big fur cloak on her body, and asked absent-mindedly, "Look, that woman was indeed burned? Don't make any mistakes. In the future I can't explain it to my wife."

"Second Mistress, don't worry, the head of the house and I watched it with our own eyes, and we can't go wrong." Everyone Lai pushed the charcoal basin to Wang Xifeng's side attentively, and passed the hand stove with newly added charcoal grains, "It's such a cold day , I’m still tired of running this trip, it’s really hard work.”

"What's the matter? It's all for my wife." Wang Xifeng ignored Aunt Zhao's affairs and asked instead: "Usually, I always heard that this village is very remote and dilapidated, and there is no harvest every year, so I can only hand over some. Here comes the local products. But looking at it now, those farm households are not too poor. Tell me, is there... there is something famous in it?"

In the past, Zhou Rui was in charge of the annual rent in the Rongguo Mansion, but now that Zhou Rui and his wife are both dead, their errands are still vacant.Now, when Wang Xifeng mentioned this, he didn't really want to pursue anything, but because of the job of collecting annual rent.These words are not meant for Lai everyone, but for communicating with her husband Lai Da, and by the way, also for the old lady.

Although she has been in charge of the family for a year or two, she is actually just a decent housekeeper. From top to bottom in the mansion, the important positions are either the old lady's person or the wife's confidant, how embarrassing is this for her Woolen cloth?

Now that Zhou Ruiteng finally found a good seat, she naturally had to find a way to do her best.If the wife is still allowed to put her confidant in, wouldn't she still have to work hard all day long and worry about it, but she won't get any benefits, let alone pay for it occasionally.

How unfair is that? !

Everyone Lai is also very clear-headed, he just listened to these words silently but didn't pick up on them.She understood what Second Mistress Lian meant, and she could pass on this word for Second Mistress, but she would not show any inclination.After all, between the second wife and Lian's second grandmother, she still prefers the second wife, who is the old lady's eyeballs, and the second master Bao, who was born with jade, crawled out of the second wife's intestines.

There was nothing to say on the road, and it was already time to hold the lights when the group returned to Rongguo Mansion.Without delay, Wang Xifeng took the two young children to Rongqing Hall to greet the old lady.

Jia Xiaohuan walked in the dark corridor, silently looking at the Rongguo Mansion, which he hadn't seen for a while, and he didn't know how long he would spend in this place.But come to think of it...it won't be too long.

"Okay, now that you're back, let's take a good rest for two days." Mother Jia smiled kindly at Jia Xiaohuan, but she didn't intend to invite him to her side to look at her, instead she still hugged Jia Baoyu affectionately.

This kid was almost infected with smallpox before, and his aunt just died. She doesn't want to be contaminated with such bad luck, so she doesn't have to bring her Baoyu any more.

Jia's mother didn't want to keep him longer, and Jia Xiaohuan didn't even bother with her, so she obediently returned to her original small courtyard.Standing in this remote small courtyard, Jia Xiaohuan's heart was dull and she couldn't tell what it was like.

When I was in this yard last time, there was his mother, him, and little auspicious son...but now he is the only one left.Among the many people in Rongqing Hall, none of them thought that there was no one around him to take care of him.

A small courtyard, with only him alone, seemed extraordinarily large and empty.This can't help but remind Jia Xiaohuan of his previous life, after Caixia got married.It was also a yard, and he was alone, and lonely...

Even, later, there was a third sister, Jia Tanchun, and he was still so lonely!

The loneliness in her heart only lasted for a moment, and Jia Xiaohuan quickly put it behind her.The current loneliness is only temporary, as long as he acts according to his plan, he will not be lonely soon.

He believed that soon, he would be able to leave the lonely cage of Rongguo Mansion and take his mother and the others far away.

On the second day, Jia Xiaohuan got up very early, because it was a bit cold in the room.Aunt Zhao is not here, and there is no one to look after her. There is no kang or charcoal basin in the house.Jia Xiaohuan got up and ran around the yard for a few laps, and punched for a while, finally getting some heat from her body.

He was about to go to the kitchen to find something to eat, when a voice came from the courtyard door, "Brother Huan is up? My wife is waiting for you to ask questions, so hurry up. I'll come in."

Jia Xiaohuan paused when he heard this voice, the person who came should be Caixia who will be by his side in the future.

Sure enough, a twelve or thirteen-year-old girl came in and smiled when she saw Jia Huan standing in the middle of the yard, but then she said angrily: "It's cold in the morning, why don't you put on more clothes and stand there?" Here, do you want to drink the wind?" As he spoke, he tapped Jia Xiaohuan's forehead.

She didn't wait for Jia Xiaohuan to speak, she went straight into the room, rolled up her sleeves to rummage through the box, muttering to herself, "I wanted to come over last night, but it happened that I was supposed to be on duty in front of my wife and couldn't leave." Open. I was thinking of you coming back so suddenly, I'm afraid I can't do anything right, aunt... Xiao Jixiang'er is not here, and there is no one to take care of you..." As he spoke, he still didn't forget to look at Jia Xiaohuan's face.

Jia Xiaohuan knew that she was afraid of hurting herself by mentioning her mother, so she just smiled at her and didn't speak.Caixia rummaged through to find a thick dress and put it on neatly for him, but found that the clothes were a bit too small, so she couldn't help sighing, "Brother Huan has grown up."

"It's not that you've grown up." Jia Xiaohuan tugged at Caixia's hair, and said, "You've grown up too, I'll ask you to be with me tomorrow, okay?"

Caixia laughed with a 'puchi', fastened the last button, and stretched the hem of the clothes for Jia Xiaohuan, "You said you were fat and panting, right? If you can ask my wife to come over, I will definitely serve you, little master." .Okay, let's go there quickly. You haven't greeted your wife for so long. If you neglect it, I'm afraid it won't be good. Let me see, my wife's complexion is not very good today, you have to be more vigilant .”

"Don't worry." Jia Xiaohuan shook Caixia's hand, then walked towards Mrs. Wang without further words.His mother broke free from the bondage of the rope, so Wang naturally wanted to find him, maybe he had prepared so many difficulties for him.

However, that woman will be busy with other things soon, so she probably can't spare the energy to mess with the young master.

In the three small upper rooms where Mrs. Wang usually lives, the bustle is just as Jia Xiaohuan expected, it seems as if the sky has turned upside down.

Before he and Caixia approached the door of the upper room, they heard a loud voice from inside, "What did you say..."

The voice was extremely sharp and piercing, like a blade scraping a stone, making the listener frown.But Jia Xiaohuan was an exception, this voice made him feel very pleasant, his brows and eyes relaxed, and even his footsteps were a little brisk.

Caixia was agitated, she quickly grabbed Jia Xiaohuan, and the two squeezed into the corner, hiding him faintly behind her.She didn't know what was going on in the room, but she could hear her wife's voice.And to make the dignified and dignified wife lose her composure like this, I'm afraid something happened... It's not much worse than the sky falling.

Sure enough, just as they shrank into the corner, Mrs. Wang rushed out from the upper room in a hurry, and it looked like she didn't even comb her hair neatly.I'm afraid he has never seen that anxious and bewildered look in his life.

Mrs. Wang just passed by in a flash, and she didn't pay attention to Jia Xiaohuan who was called by her name. Probably...she had already thrown Jia Xiaohuan out of the sky.Mrs. Wang now has only one person in her heart, and that is her Baoyu.

"What's wrong with Madam?" Caixia looked at Madam Wang's back in surprise and the string of maids and servants following her, and murmured, "I've never seen Madam panic like this. Brother Huan, you Wait until I ask..."

"There's no need to ask, the only one who can make her lose her composure like this is her lifeline." Jia Xiaohuan grabbed Caixia and dragged her to follow the group ahead.He blinked at Caixia, and said mischievously, "Come on, let's follow and see the excitement."

"You, there's no time to hide from this kind of thing. Why do you dare to come forward? If something really happened to Master Bao, the old ladies and wives in this house don't know how anxious they are. If you dare You don’t want to be hated to see something lively.” Caixia hurriedly grabbed him, not allowing him to go there.

"It's okay, they don't care about me." Jia Xiaohuan didn't worry about this, he knew the situation of Second Master Bao very well, and he was sure that the wife and mother-in-law couldn't worry about Jia Baoyu enough, and never cared about him.

It would be a waste of effort if he didn't go and appreciate the plays he had choreographed by Mr. Huan himself.

After all, the child didn't care about Caixia, and went straight to Jia Baoyu's yard.Seeing that she couldn't stop him, Caixia pouted and stamped her feet behind her, gritted her teeth and followed.

Sure enough, he was still a brat, he dared to get involved in everything, and he didn't even think about how anyone could protect him when Aunt Zhao was gone.If it wasn't for the kindness she received from her aunt back then, she wouldn't have cared about this little brat.

Today, the weather has not yet warmed up, and Jia Baoyu still lives outside Jiamu Bisha cabinet.In normal times, it would be still early in the morning, and it would be far from the time for Second Master Bao to get up, so there should be silence inside and outside the Bisha cabinet.But today is not the case. Not only is there a lot of noise inside and outside the Bisha closet, but even Jiamu's room is messy. It seems that she is not worried about disturbing the old lady Jiamu.

Even, Jia Mu was the one who yelled the most deafeningly.

"Hurry up -- hurry up and ask the imperial physician, please the imperial physician...You guys, be gentler, dare to hurt my Baoyu, and see who I can get around..." Jiamu's clothes were not neat, and she was not as neat as usual. The image of the princess.At this time, she only cares about her precious jade, which is her lifeblood.

Jia Baoyu lay paralyzed on the bed, his hands and feet were all frozen there, unable to tremble.On a very cold day, his whole body seemed to be submerged, and he could squeeze water out.A disc face was pale and pale, and the lips that should have been fat-applied were already bloodless, and they were twitching imperceptibly at this moment, but they couldn't make the slightest squeak.

It wasn't that he wasn't in pain, but that he was so painful that he couldn't make a single movement or make a sound.Just a quarter of an hour ago, he was still rolling all over the bed, screaming for pain in his throat, several maids could not hold him up with all their strength, which alarmed the whole Rongqingtang.

"Baoyu, Baoyu, my Baoyu... What's the matter with you? Where is it uncomfortable, what is uncomfortable, you tell grandma, grandma hurts for you, suffers for you...My Baoyu, my poor son, You're killing me..." Mother Jia didn't know what was going on with Jia Baoyu, and she didn't dare to touch him lightly, so she could only sit by the bed and watch him cry.I couldn't stop crying, my eyes were going to go blind from crying.

But Jia Baoyu couldn't speak or move, and only those eyes that should have been like autumn waves were half-opened and half-closed, looking at his ancestors full of misery and fear, there was no trace of charm in the corners of the eyes and brows. , except for eye feces, there are tears in it.

Mrs. Wang also came very quickly, calling her "Baoyu" along the way and rushed in.

This woman also got up quite early today, and she planned to wash and dress slowly so that that little brat Jia Huan would have a good time outside.It's just that the plan can't keep up with the changes, and I haven't learned about that little evil, but I waited for the bad news of her family Baoyu first.

This is really a bolt from the blue!Her precious jade is fine, how could she become so ill so suddenly? !

"Baoyu, how are you? How's it going..." Seeing her son's miserable appearance, Mrs. Wang couldn't help but yelled 'Aw' and rushed over.She couldn't imagine how she would live if something happened to Baoyu again!

However, Mrs. Wang failed to pounce on her son, and was pushed away by the strong old lady Jia Mu.The old lady glared at Mrs. Wang angrily, and reprimanded without shame: "What are you doing! Baoyu dares to touch him like this. If you hurt my Baoyu in the slightest, I will kill you." Turning to the door, she looked up He shouted: "Where is the imperial physician, where is the doctor, why haven't you called yet?"

When Jia Xiaohuan arrived, Mrs. Wang just got up from the ground crying, and lay down beside Jia Baoyu's bed with a sad face, looking helplessly at her suffering baby son, but she didn't dare to touch him anymore.

Although he came to watch the fun, he didn't intend to perform in person. Relying on his petite and exquisite advantage, Jia Xiaohuan found a corner to watch the play.With the wonderful acting skills of this kicker, Mr. Huan can even save breakfast.

Soon, before the imperial physician and doctor were invited, several girls from the mansion arrived first, and they gathered around Jia Baoyu's bed full of concern.Jia Xiaohuan took a special look at Jia Tanchun's face, and found that she really had a deep love for her brother and sister Bao, and she looked like she wanted to replace her with her body.

Tsk tsk, what a good sister!

On the other hand, Lin Daiyu, who has a childhood sweetheart with Jia Baoyu and is in love with her in the future, although she looks quite worried at this time, she is far less anxious than Jia Tanchun.It's true to think about it, this girl has only been in Rongguo Mansion for a short time, and she hasn't grown into a childhood sweetheart with Jia Baoyu yet.

Once Jia Baoyu's accident happened, not only the entire Rongguo Mansion, but also the Ningguo Mansion were alarmed.Jia Xiaohuan leaned in an inconspicuous corner, and counted the number of people from the old Jia family who came to care for Bao Erye, Jia She and his wife, Jia Zhen and his wife, Jia Lian and his wife, Jia Rong, Jia Qiang, etc., the size of Ningrong and Rongfu. The masters came to report to this Bisha cabinet one by one, not to mention those Jia family members behind Ningrong Street.

Even the second political master, who has always been upright and self-disciplined, sued the ministry for leave because of this precious son-in-law, and was absent from work for the first time in more than ten years.

"Look, this is the status." Jia Xiaohuan shook her head, and murmured to Caixia beside her, "Second Master Bao hasn't died yet, this is just such a grand occasion, if he really dares to die, tsk...Caixia Ah, do you think we'll let him try to die?"

"It's talking nonsense again. My third master, you can calm down. Since you want to watch the excitement, you can watch it peacefully, and don't talk nonsense. If someone listens to it, you little bitch Do you want it?" Caixia and Jia Huan hid together, rolled her eyes and covered his mouth, and patted his arm before she could hold back.

What a brat, how dare he say anything!

Jia Xiaohuan only sneered, and didn't say anything more, watching the crowd over there crying and crying.He still remembers a sentence that his master said, let him say it at this time, it is "seeing them are not happy, but Master Huan is happy."

Alas, he, Mr. Huan, is indeed a master who hides traitors in his heart, is full of five poisons, and does not recognize his six relatives.

Well, not bad, not bad, must praise!

At this time, Jia Xiaohuan suddenly missed the plaster.If the plaster was there at this moment, he would definitely praise the young master.Really, it's obviously just a plaster, but it's a blind person. When it should stick to people, it doesn't know how to stick to it, and when it shouldn't stick to it, it just sticks so hard that it can't be torn off.

In Prince Su's mansion not far from the imperial city, Lord Su and several confidants are having a secret conversation in the study.It was probably because of something that they had a dispute. It was obvious that the two were about to fight, and the people next to them were trying to persuade them.

Lord Su sat behind the desk, but he didn't care about it. His eyes were a little empty, and he didn't know what he was thinking.However, three sudden sounds of "Ah Choo, Ah Choo, Ah Choo" made the study room utterly silent.

Three sneezes in a row not only woke up Prince Su himself, but also calmed down the noisy crowd.

"You must also understand my current situation. The position where the father and his old man sits is a misfortune if you get it, and you will die if you lose it. However, I haven't lived enough now..." Lord Su rubbed and still With a slightly itchy nose, he straightened his face, glanced at his confidantes present, and said in a deep voice: "So, there is no need to discuss any more, each of you will go back and make preparations according to the plan. Three days later, the morning will start."

When everyone in the study heard the words, they all looked at each other, and then bowed to Prince Su, saying: "Your servant, please obey the king's order."

With Wang Ye's words, the few of them also breathed a sigh of relief.Otherwise, hesitating and procrastinating all the time... just like what the prince said, he would be dead.

After seeing off all his confidantes, Lord Su relaxed a little, leaning on the backrest, playing with a small jasper ring with his fingers.Maybe, he should go to tease the baby these two days, and pick some "good" things from him by the way.What he was plotting, the bloody battle alone was indeed a bit brutal, especially... when it was against his emperor Lao Tzu.

In Rongguo Mansion, Jia Xiaohuan didn't know that when he was thinking of Uncle Plaster, Uncle Plaster was also thinking of him.Sitting in the corner and watching the excitement for most of the day, those women were crying, or they would just vent their anger on others at will, and Mr. Huan quickly lost interest in watching the show.

It happened that he was also hungry, so he took Caixia and left Rongqing Hall.The two of them still chose a secluded and inconspicuous place to discuss the meal.

The phoenix egg in the mansion is dying of illness, the mansion has successively invited several imperial physicians, more than a dozen famous doctors, even now there are still doctors coming in and out.It's a pity that no one in this position can diagnose what kind of illness Bao Erye is suffering from, and they are all at a loss what to do.

Baby Phoenix Egg is in such a serious condition, Mother Jia and the others don't have the time to eat.I'm afraid that whoever dares to mention the meal to Mrs. Jia at this moment, the old lady will spit him to death.

Her precious grandson is in such pain, and there is still someone who can eat, how heartless it must be!

Among other things, at least for the meal in front of me, many people in the Rongguo Mansion could not count on it.In view of this, Jia Xiaohuan didn't plan to eat at the mansion.

Touching the small private room in his bosom, Huan Xiaoye waved his hand, and said to Caixia: "Go, Xiaoye will take you to the toothbrush festival."

However, Caixia didn't reply to his words, instead she stared at him and winked at him.Jia Xiaohuan knew something was wrong, turned around quickly, and saw his uncle Jia She was smiling and looking at him behind him.

Oops, I met an old man.Jia Xiaohuan stuck out her tongue, smiled and looked at him, "Uncle, Huan'er misses you to death—"

"Bah, I didn't see you even looking at me when I was dying." Elder She couldn't be fooled by him, he rubbed that little head a few times as soon as he stretched out his hand.